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Don't study pure math or science. Just don't. It's not fucking worth it. I wish I could go back and undo this and just become a code monkey. Read this very carefully.
>you will NEVER catch up to the kids that had professors as parents and were doing real analysis and quantum mechanics when they were 12
>even if you have the same level of natural iq/intelligence as anyone else you still will be too far behind the people who have talent AND the experience and work ethic
>if you EVER get below a 3.9 say goodbye to going to the top grad schools because they have so many perfect candidates to pick from plus you have to compete with all of india and china
>got a B freshman year? Say goodbye to that REU that year. Then the REU next year since you didn't have the research experience from the first year... Oh you don't even know what an REU is? You poor soul...
>BTW, only people from the top grad schools have any future in academia
>you have to keep publishing complete garbage to be able to eat
>chinks/pajeets read your research and steal your work
>you will grow to hate it, guaranteed
>backstabbing everywhere
>get a shit advisor? RIP
>even if you make it through this sick system you have to keep slaving and publishing garbage just to maybe get an adjunct professorship at some shithole
>postdoc after postdoc after postdoc that lead to nowhere
>work for under minimum wage
>affirmative action is out of control in STEM
>industry takes your research, never pays you for it
>tenure track positions are GONE
>maybe you want to get out of the academia hamster wheel; those "quant wall street jobs for STEM phds"? They only want phds from harvard and yale, not your non-ivy school! LOL!
If you did the entire undergrad math/physics curriculum while in high school and are currently at an Ivy league with a 3.9+ taking graduate level classes and are engaging in research with world renowned professors, then carry on. Otherwise GIVE UP NOW.
>you will NEVER catch up to the kids that had professors as parents and were doing real analysis and quantum mechanics when they were 12
>even if you have the same level of natural iq/intelligence as anyone else you still will be too far behind the people who have talent AND the experience and work ethic
>if you EVER get below a 3.9 say goodbye to going to the top grad schools because they have so many perfect candidates to pick from plus you have to compete with all of india and china
>got a B freshman year? Say goodbye to that REU that year. Then the REU next year since you didn't have the research experience from the first year... Oh you don't even know what an REU is? You poor soul...
>BTW, only people from the top grad schools have any future in academia
>you have to keep publishing complete garbage to be able to eat
>chinks/pajeets read your research and steal your work
>you will grow to hate it, guaranteed
>backstabbing everywhere
>get a shit advisor? RIP
>even if you make it through this sick system you have to keep slaving and publishing garbage just to maybe get an adjunct professorship at some shithole
>postdoc after postdoc after postdoc that lead to nowhere
>work for under minimum wage
>affirmative action is out of control in STEM
>industry takes your research, never pays you for it
>tenure track positions are GONE
>maybe you want to get out of the academia hamster wheel; those "quant wall street jobs for STEM phds"? They only want phds from harvard and yale, not your non-ivy school! LOL!
If you did the entire undergrad math/physics curriculum while in high school and are currently at an Ivy league with a 3.9+ taking graduate level classes and are engaging in research with world renowned professors, then carry on. Otherwise GIVE UP NOW.
